This Garlic Pork Belly was accidentally discovered by my father when he was testing out a braised pork belly. He added double the amount of garlic he was supposed to use and thought, just let it be, maybe the flavor is just more towards the garlicky side. It turns out to be not garlicky to the palate, but with a good balanced flavor, salty and aromatic. Try my father’s Braised Garlic Pork Belly Recipe!

My Father’s Accidental Recipe – Best Garlic Pork Belly!

As we all know that garlic is a very common pungent aromatic ingredient that we use in Asian Cuisine, Chinese, Indian, Malays – Asians, but if we over-use it, some would find the aroma offensive and dislike the over-ly garlic flavor. But even though this garlic pork belly recipe calls for about 400g of garlic, it does not taste too garlicky, why? Because the garlic flavor is balanced with the usage of Rock Honey Sugar and Shao Xing Wine (a type of Chinese Wine), in fact, the combination of these few ingredients creates an aromatic, salty and slightly sweet flavor that will keep you adding more rice!

Toasted Garlic

In this Garlic Pork Belly recipe, we will be using Toasted Garlic, not to be confused with black garlic, where the garlic is fermented.

I did some search on Google and found out that there is literally no information on “Fire Garlic”. Fire garlic is a direct translation of Chinese, whereas the proper term should be toasted garlic, the garlic is toasted in a smoked house, mostly produced from Guangdong province, China in two-story house and is exported to Western Europe and Southeast Asia.

In Malaysia, they are widely available in Chinese grocery shops and used in a wide variety of Chinese dishes.

By using toasted garlic, the garlic flavor is greatly enhanced, since the garlic flavor is intensified through the toasting process.

Rock Honey Sugar

Rock Honey Sugar is an important ingredient for this recipe, as this sugar has some light citrusy flavor that would balance the pungent flavor of the garlic.

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My father’s accidental Braised Garlic Pork Belly Recipe. He discovered this combination of ingredients when he over-add the amount of garlic and tested the sugar by substituting regular white sugar with Rock Honey Sugar, which creates this flavorful Garlic Pork Belly Recipe!

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